The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-04-09
SOUTHERN GLEANINGs.

AleSluenU Cleveland. Already there are
Tour or five candidates for the office.
A plowman on farm near Atlanta, Ga.
few days since, turned up 81, 100 in gold.
supposed to have been buried during the
war
Mr. John Green, aged eighty. four, and
one of the Oldest, if not the oldest, citizens
OF Bibb County, Ca, is said to be at the
point of death.
Two prominent lawyers Of Newberry,
D. u exchanged nine shots in a crowded
courtroom few days since, one of them
being fatally wounded.
The cotton mills Of the West Point ga
Manufacturing Company were totally
consumed by fire a few nights ago. The
loss is 100000; insurance, $780,
The Raleigh, IN. CO. Cottonseed Oil
mills and fertilizer factory were burned
Few days ago. Loss 100000; insurance
SS5,On The fire was probably accidental
The Tennessee Senate has passed bill
TO require railroad companies TO establish
comfortable waiting rooms at all stations
where tickets are sold, the act to take eff
1ect six months after passage.
During a heavy thund er-storm which
swept over Florida, few nights ago, the
lightning set fire to store in Internachen.
q little town about fifteen miles south of
Jacksonville. Before the fire was gotten
under control two of the largest stores in
the place were destroyed; also, two pri-
vate residences and one office, causing
loss Of fully $1,000
q Cattle in the Texas drought district are
reported perishing for water.
ma h,1u6 rod ord t,,,o ,-o..,. I
in Rockdale County, GA, can thread a
needle as easily as any one, and walks
hve miles day regularly.
There is farm one hundred miles long
and one hundred miles wide in LOUISIANA.
1t cost $500 to fence it.
A great chicken main is arranged to
take place at Parkersburg, Va, during
the Easter holidays About two hundred
battles will be fought.
A. M. Smith, a lawyer of Calvert, Tex,
was foully murdesed while blowing in
his field fewdays ago, by some unknown
person.
A potato crop disease, called the
blight" has broken out in Louisiana, and
is doing great damage
Fears are expressed in the South that
the fruit crop has been injured by recent
trosts, and already experts are giving
varied and differing testimony in the mat
ter.
Captain C. E. Dutton of the Geological
Survey, in studying upon the Charleston
earthquake, ascertalned that the waves
travelled between four thousand and five
thousand meters per second.
A man with a wonderful beard
has been attracting attention in
Runnels County, Tex 1t Is alleged
that he ties it about his neck for a
muller, uses it as a chest-protector. and
curls up under it at night instead of using
blankets.
Mrs. John Kennedy, Of Louisville, KY,
has just heen committed TO an insane
asylum for entertaining the strange hal
lucination that her real husband and her
two children have been spirited away and
others substituted in their stead.
A fire at Columbus, GA, few DAYS
ago, destroyed the shoe store of W. r.
Bedell and the clothing store of j. K. Har-
ris az Co. Bedelps loss is 1,0)O; insur-
ance, $1,000 Harris & Co.'S loss Is SIS, 900;
iAsHfanee, Stt660. The dry goods store of
]. A. Krven & Co. was slightly damaged
by smoke and water Loss covered by in
surance
Near Beulah, Miss, a few evenings
since, w. l.. Lowe, member of the Leg
islature from Bolivar County, shot Char
lie Yaman several times, from the result
Of which Yaman died three hours after
ward. As far as can be learned the diff
Guilty arose through Yaman's intimacy
with loves wife.
Betsy Cook, colored, living few miles /
from Brookhaven, Mss, went to field |
to work n few days ago leaving her |
three small children to take care of their |
house. On her return she found the house |
in ashes and her three children burned to
death.
Mother Sympporas, of the Sisters of |
Lorette, was buried at Montgomery, Ala, !
a few days ago, She had been for several |
years Neither Superior of the Roman Cath |
Ollie convent there, and was greatly beloved |
by the whole community. She was born
at Lorette, KY, fortY-five years ago, of |
parents named Warren, and dedicated |
her life to the sisterhood at the age of IF |
teen.
A jury at Daingerfeld, Tex, in the case
Of Mrs. Culberson against the East Line .
branch of the Missouri Pacific,
for damages for killing her hus band, a
conductor on that road, brought in YER
lict assessing the damages at $4,000
&c, 900 for the support of herself and $1,000
each for the support of her two little chill
lren.
Tarleton Steel, colored, killed his wife
with an axe a few days ago, near Ada,
Ala, in n dispute He then took her
body into the woods about mile inland,
piled brush on it and poured kerosene
over it and burned the body. The negro
was jailed and confesses the CRIME.
The Kentucky Court Of Appeals has
)verruled the petition for hearing in the
case Of John j, Cornelison VS.. Common.
wealth This is Cornelson's last resort
10 evade the punishment decreed against
him for assaulting with a cowhide Judge (
Richard Reid, in Mount Sterling, in May,
1884.
The pro spects for the peach crop in
Kentucky are good; also for other fruits
to the extent of their culture
Fruit raisers in Louisiana are sanguine
Is to the prospects for good crops. Early
vegetables are in excellent condition.
Reports from various portions of Mis-
,issippl give good promise for abundant